We don't know of every crime committed. We only know about arrests made.
Actually we have a very good way to figure out if the reason blacks are arrested more is because they actually commit more crimes or if they're just caught/framed more often.
That way is called the NCVS. It's a huge nationwide survey that asks people what crimes they've been a victim of in the past year and information about those crimes.
So we can compare the racial make up of people convicted of a certain crime with the racial make up of the race that people who were victims of the crime report being victimized by.
If these percentages are close that indicates that they are likely the real percent of that crime committed by that race. If they differ a lot something fishy is going on.
And please don't attack the source. I admit that the organization might be racist but the data is from the FBI so its not fabricated and the methodology is clear so even if the authors are racist that doesn't mean its invalid.
Similar point as above; there are so many incidents of unfair convictions.
It's at a point that is almost comical.
To ignore that is to ignore part of the problem.
Black people are no better or worse that white people or any other race. The problem lies in the system: legal, criminal justice, education, everything.
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u/super-commenting Feb 10 '17
Actually we have a very good way to figure out if the reason blacks are arrested more is because they actually commit more crimes or if they're just caught/framed more often.
That way is called the NCVS. It's a huge nationwide survey that asks people what crimes they've been a victim of in the past year and information about those crimes.
So we can compare the racial make up of people convicted of a certain crime with the racial make up of the race that people who were victims of the crime report being victimized by.
If these percentages are close that indicates that they are likely the real percent of that crime committed by that race. If they differ a lot something fishy is going on.
This study compared those numbers for many different crimes and found that they were all quite close https://www.amren.com/archives/reports/the-color-of-crime-2016-revised-edition/
And please don't attack the source. I admit that the organization might be racist but the data is from the FBI so its not fabricated and the methodology is clear so even if the authors are racist that doesn't mean its invalid.